Dazzler wrote:We hardly ever saw any weed at all in Northern England in the 1980s and 1990s; It was all hash, but very good hash. I think the first time I saw actual decent bud in the UK was around about 1996.

I always preferred hash though.

We used to get loads of weed in Preston in the 70s and 80s, but it was all Jamaican brick weed that was full of seeds, or crappy home grown that was more leaf than bud!

I miss decent hash though! The stuff you can buy in the coffeeshops are mere shadows of the products they purport to be!

des wrote:I don't think the green in Amsterdam is any weaker than it used to be? It's probably more to do with the British growers producing stuff that's just as strong!

The first time I smoked Amnesia Haze I nearly slid under the table! My kids smoke that shit now like it's the crappy home grown we used to get in the Seventies and the Eighties!

Peace, Des.

Well I remember the K2 in 1998 from Den Haag and it was strong as fuck, then the White Widow in 2001/2 in Utrecht was even stronger to me. Last time I visited Holland was in 2009 and I was smoking Silver Haze as well as Amnesia. Admittedly it wasn't from Amsterdam but from La Paz in Zandvoort. It was nowhere near as strong or maybe it's just me?

des wrote:I don't think the green in Amsterdam is any weaker than it used to be? It's probably more to do with the British growers producing stuff that's just as strong!

The first time I smoked Amnesia Haze I nearly slid under the table! My kids smoke that shit now like it's the crappy home grown we used to get in the Seventies and the Eighties!

Peace, Des.

Well I remember the K2 in 1998 from Den Haag and it was strong as fuck, then the White Widow in 2001/2 in Utrecht was even stronger to me. Last time I visited Holland was in 2009 and I was smoking Silver Haze as well as Amnesia. Admittedly it wasn't from Amsterdam but from La Paz in Zandvoort. It was nowhere near as strong or maybe it's just me?

I remember there was some fuss a couple of years ago regarding the THC content in some of the strains was getting too high!

Maybe the growers have toned it down a tad to keep the government off their backs?

To be honest the amount of chemicals and science going into weed now frightens me. I got some weed off a lad here last week and, upon smoking it, totally freaked out.

I always prefer some simple home grown if available, nice and mellow.

that's also why I always prefered hash too which (although I prefer the taste) always seems more manageable i.e. you can actually function.

Incidentally, I see two more US States have passed MJ - Oregon and somewhere. Seems almost inevitable now that it will sweep the states. I think Florida marginally voted it down though, probably all the crumblies.